Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-15 Thread Richard
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: You want something more like this: sub counter { my $count; my $clear = `clear`; my $counting = 'EOF'; %s | Counting...| |

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-15 Thread David Schmidt
You might want to look into fork http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_fork.htm On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Richard rich.j...@gmail.com wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: Richard wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: You want something more like this:

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-15 Thread Richard
David Schmidt wrote: You might want to look into fork http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_fork.htm thank you.. I was experimenting w/ forks but I definitely need to understand forking better. thanks!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-14 Thread Richard
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard wrote: wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict; sub counter { my $count; my $counting =

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-14 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: You want something more like this: sub counter { my $count; my $clear = `clear`; my $counting = 'EOF'; %s | Counting...| | %2d

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-14 Thread Richard
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: You want something more like this: sub counter { my $count; my $clear = `clear`; my $counting = 'EOF'; %s | Counting...| |

counter program by using closure

2008-12-13 Thread Richard
wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict; sub counter { my $count; my $counting = EOF;

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-13 Thread Richard
Richard wrote: wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict; sub counter { my $count; my $counting = EOF;

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-13 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 21:13, Richard rich.j...@gmail.com wrote: wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict; sub counter {

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-13 Thread Richard
Chas. Owens wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 21:13, Richard rich.j...@gmail.com wrote: wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict;

Re: counter program by using closure

2008-12-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard wrote: wanted to draw a box that's counting up for certain time. Thought I could use the counter but it just displays the box not the number.. can anyone point it out for me? thank you. use warnings; use strict; sub counter { my $count; my $counting = EOF;